MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 182, 28 April 1919, Page 5

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., presided at the Magistrate's Court on Saturday, and dealt with a long list of police eases.Two returned soldiers, hospital patients at Trentham, named respectively W. D. Scott and Alex. Agnew/were charged with resisting- Constable J. Graham and assaulting Constable A Euston. On investigation the charged proved to be trifling. The two men were on their way to the station, Scott being slightly tho worse for liquor. His conduct was sufficient to attract the attention of Constable Graham, who arrested him, when Agnew ende'avoural to get his mate away. Constable Huston came on the econe, and received three blows on the f (ice from Scott. The Magistrate took a lenient view of the matter, and-convicted and ordered them to be handed over to the military authorities. Two seamen named William M'Renna and Daniel Hethoring(on pleaded guilty to discharging offensive matter on a public street, and were each fined £2 and costs: William Thompson, similarly charged, was convicted and discharged. Alfred Julius Klink, who pleaded guilty to absenting 'himself from his ship, the Transocean, was ordered to pay 4"s. costs. For insobriety, four first offenders who failed to appear had their bail of 10s. each forfeited. Another was fined 55., in default twenty-four hours imprisonment. ' Douglas Wilkinson, against whom there were two previous convictions, was fined 2fls., with the option of seventy-two hours' imprisonment. Mohammed AH was convicted, and discharged. JUVENILE COUET Two lads both undor ten years of age were before.Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M., in the Juvenile Court on Saturday, oharged with having broken into tho store a( Messrs. Munt, Cottrell and Co., Georgo Ktroot, and doing daninge to me extent of about M). They stole a quantity of magazines, damaged a coiisideraole quantity of paint work, and broko c pen and a number of eases md boxes. Constable Cattanach said the lads were not bad boys, and were generally well behaved, but were mischievous. Mr. T. Neiive, who appeared for the boys, asked for leniency, especially with respect to one.of them, who was the sou of a soldior who had retm-ned with the loss of one leg. During tho father's absence tho mother had had a bad time, and owing to that and other circumstances she was unable' to give tho boy the attention' ho required': Neither of the parents was in , a position to make restitution. Both bo.vn were admitted to probation for one year undei strict conditions. \Another lad was charged with the theft of about twenty-four dozen Fluenzol bottles.' He sold them in lots to local chemists until they became suspicious, and when questioned he said his father was a bottlo dealer Later he said he got them from another boy, who had asked him to sell them. Mr. ■ C. W. Palmer, of the Fiuenzol Proprietary, said the bottles had been left about, and "might easily have proved a temptation. Tho boy was credited with a good character. Tho Magistrate warned the lad of the danger he was running, and said .bo vm a sneak for taking anything belonging to somone else. The caee was adiuurner) for a year, during which time lilie lac' must report himself regularly to the junior probation ofh'cor.